Emily Pinkerton

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Emily Pinkerton

Raised in the shadow of Houston refineries, Emily Pinkerton currently lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an MFA from San Francisco State University, and her writing has previously appeared or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Juked, BlazeVOX, Pith, Hobart, and LEVELER, among others.  Emily is the author of three chapbooks: Natural Disasters (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016), Bloom (Alley Cat Press, forthcoming Spring 2018) and Adaptations (Nomadic Press, forthcoming Fall 2018). She is currently a 2017-2018 Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco.  More of Emily's publications can be found at thisisemilypinkerton.tumblr.com, and she tweets as @neongolden. Her favorite color is fog.